iOS beta · TestFlight

OFC POKER

Open Face Chinese poker that plays like the real thing

Thirteen cards, three rows, one rule that ruins everything: the bottom has to beat the middle, and the middle has to beat the top. Break it and you lose the hand before your opponent shows a card. This is that game, on your phone, with bots worth playing.

Free, play money only No account needed Pineapple + Classic

The whole game in thirty seconds

You build three poker hands at once. Three cards on top, five in the middle, five on the bottom. Cards come to you a few at a time and once you place one it never moves again — that's the "open face" part, and it's what makes the game.

When both players have thirteen cards down, the rows are compared: top against top, middle against middle, bottom against bottom. Each row you win is a point, all three is three more, and strong hands pay royalties on top.

A finished board that does not foul: bottom (royal flush) beats middle (full house), and middle beats top (pair of kings). Get that order wrong and all three rows score zero.

Read the full rules Walk through a hand

Two ways to play

Pineapple

Three cards, keep two

The variant everyone plays. Each turn deals three cards, you place two and burn one. Hands finish in four turns instead of eight and the royalties get silly.

Classic

One card at a time

Thirteen cards, one at a time, no discards. Slower, tighter and the purest test of whether you can read a board before it exists — and where the app starts you.

Built by someone who plays it

Most OFC apps are either a dead multiplayer lobby or a scoring calculator with a table drawn behind it. This one is a single-player game that respects the maths.

Bots that punish a lazy top row

Three difficulties — Beginner, Grinder, Shark. The Shark counts what you've shown, chases royalties when the board allows it and folds the greedy line when it doesn't.

Heads-up or three-handed

1v1 or 1v2 at the same table. Three-handed changes everything: the same nine cards get seen by more players and half your outs are already dead.

Missions, levels and a bankroll

Daily and weekly missions, XP levels that unlock stakes, and coins that go in and out of every match. It's play money — but it's the reason you'll play ten more hands.

No account, works offline

Open it and you're playing. Nothing to sign up for, hands work with no signal, and your progress can be moved to a new phone with an email code if you want it to.

Learn the game properly

Everything below was written while building the game, which means it matches how the game actually scores — including the bits most explanations skip.

What is OFC What Open Face Chinese poker is, how a hand plays out, why it took over the high-roller pits, and every variant explained — Pineapple, Fantasyland and 2-7. Rules The complete OFC ruleset: the three rows, the dealing order, fouling, scooping, royalties and how a hand is settled. Written to be read once and remembered. How to play Your first OFC hand, card by card: where the five opening cards go, what to do with each draw, and the three mistakes every beginner makes. Pineapple Pineapple OFC deals three cards and keeps two. Faster hands, bigger royalties and a discard pile that becomes information. Rules and strategy. Scoring How Open Face Chinese poker is scored: one point per row, three for the scoop, royalties on top, and what a fouled hand costs. With worked examples. Royalties The full Open Face Chinese poker royalty chart for the top, middle and bottom rows, plus which royalties are actually worth chasing. Fantasyland Fantasyland is the reward for QQ or better up top: you get all thirteen cards at once. Entry rules, re-entry, and what it is really worth. Fouling A fouled OFC hand scores nothing and pays the opponent everything. Why it happens, the maths of the risk, and how to bail out of a hand going wrong. Strategy Open Face Chinese poker strategy that actually moves the needle: bottom-heavy starts, when to chase royalties, reading the board and the foul-risk rule. Hand rankings Every poker hand ranked, plus the part most charts miss: how three-card hands are ranked in the top row of Open Face Chinese poker. Glossary Foul, scoop, Fantasyland, dead card, pineapple, royalty, dumping — the Open Face Chinese poker vocabulary, defined in one line each. Play online An honest look at where OFC is still dealt online, what happened to the big sites, and the offline-first alternative if you just want to play hands.

Before you sign up

Is OFC Poker free?

Yes. The beta is free and the game is free to play. There is play-money currency for stakes and missions, and no real-money gambling anywhere in the app.

Do I need to know how to play OFC first?

No. The app opens with a guided hand that walks you through placing your first thirteen cards, and there is a rules screen you can pull up mid-match. If you would rather read first, start with the rules guide.

Which variants can I play?

Pineapple (three cards dealt, two placed, one discarded) and Classic (one card at a time). Both are playable heads-up or against two opponents, over 5, 10, 20 or 50 rounds.

Is it on Android?

Not yet. The beta is iOS only, through TestFlight. Leave your email and pick Android in the reply — that is the signal we use to decide when to build it.

Can I play against other people?

Not in this build. Every hand is against the bots, which is deliberate: an OFC hand takes two minutes and waiting for a human to place three cards ruins it. Online tables are on the roadmap.

Want to play a hand instead of reading about one?

OFC Poker is in open beta on iOS. Leave your email and we'll send a TestFlight invite — it's free, there's no account to create, and hands work on the underground.

Pineapple and Classic, 5 to 50 rounds a match
Three bot difficulties that don't hand you the pot
No account, no ads in the middle of a hand